24-25 octobre 2012
Organisers : Matthieu Husson (Sphère-Paris Diderot ; Saprat-EPHE), Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, Nouvelle Zelande) et Li Liang (Sphère-Paris Diderot)
University Paris Diderot, sîte Paris Rive Gauche, Bat. Condorcet
Salle Klein, 612B
4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris
RATIONALE
We envisage that the following provisional list of questions will be relevant. Material transmitted from astronomical zijes to Latin, Sanskrit and Chinese works was not always from the same ; how precise can we be about the sources and which texts proved to be popular in which contexts ? Under what circumstances did the tables and their related texts circulate and what sorts of peoples were involved ? Questions relating to the integration of foreign astronomical materials and tabular data into the traditions of the inheritor cultures of inquiry are significant too. For instance, there were long-standing astronomical traditions in Chinese, Sanskrit : how well was data from the zij literature accommodated into these contexts ? What proved attractive and influential to these cultures of inquiry and how was it assimilated into its new setting ? In contrast, in Latin, the transmission of Arabic astronomical tables in fact initiated new direction and vigour into the astral sciences. What can we surmise from such contrasts ? More broadly, to what extent did the large-scale transmission of Arabic astronomical tables produce a standardisation of astronomical science, or rather did it result in ongoing diversification ?
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 24 OCTOBER
10:00 Accueil et introduction (Liang Li, Clemency Montelle, Matthieu Husson)
10 :30
Glen van Brummellen (Quest university, Canada)
Circulation of Arabic astronomical tables in Arabic
12 :00 Lunch break
13 :30
José Chabas (University of Barcelona, Espagne)
Arabic Influence on Astronomical Tables in Medieval Europe
15 :00 Coffee break
15 :15
Matthieu Husson (Sphère-Paris Diderot ; Saprat-EPHE)
Is the Chinese « European Layout » of the Mingshi (1738) realy european ? A case study in layout transmission : first part from Arabic to Latin sources.
16 :45 End of the day
THURSDAY 25 OCTOBER
10:00 Accueil
10 :30
Clemency Montelle (University of Canterbury, Nouvelle Zelande)
The emergence of “cyclic tables in the seventeenth century : Haridatta’s Jagadbhûsạnạ and its Islamic inspiration.
12 :00 Lunch break
13 :30
Yunli Shi (University of Science and technology of China, Chine)
The Chinese and Korean Appropriation of Islamic astronomy
15 :00 Coffee break
15 :15
Liang Li (Sphère-Paris Diderot)
Double entry arrays and tables of Huihui Calendar (Arabic Calendric System) in China, A case study in layout transmission : second part from Arabic and Latin to Chinese sources”
16 :45 Discussion, General Conclusion
17 :15 End of the day
